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Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson Hardcover – May 1, 2002

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Twilight is the magic hour when ordinary routines undergo strange transformations. Gregory Crewdson's Twilight series, begun in 1998 and completed in 2002, consists of forty photographs created as elaborately staged large-scale tableaux that explore the domestic landscape and its relationship to an artificially heightened natural world. The collision between the normal and the paranormal in these narrative images produces a tension that serves to transform the topology of the suburban landscape into a place of wonder and anxiety.
As Rick Moody suggests in his essay, Crewdson seems preocupied with "the resection of the suburban ideal, where dream strategies, like condensation and displacement, the action of metaphor, undergird the here and now." Moody's essay reveals as much as it withholds, suggesting the ways that life and memory can be points of entry into art.

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May 1, 2002
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0810910039
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978-0810910034
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Twilight, that indistinct time between day and night, is an appropriate title for the latest and most substantial monograph by photographer Crewdson (after 1999's Dream of Life and 1998's Hover). Continuing his tradition of photographing cinematically staged and darkened realities of suburban life, Crewdson presents characters who exist in a world where American Beauty meets The X-Files. This volume's 40 images, which were inspired by Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, were created much like a feature film; the production crew included lighting supervisors, pyrotechnic experts, interior designers, and bug wranglers. Crewdson's fabricated realities contradict the traditional photographic adage of the "decisive moment." In using this method, he demonstrates that the camera can do much more than capture a moment in time, thus placing this work in the vanguard of contemporary art photography. The book begins with an essay by novelist Moody and ends with production stills and credits. Recommended for all public and academic collections. Shauna Frischkorn, Millersville Univ. Lib., PA
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Rick Moody is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories, including Demonology, Purple America, and The Ice Storm. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, and Harper's, among other publications. He lives on Fishers Island, New York.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abrams; Second Edition (May 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810910039
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810910034
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.1 x 0.9 x 11.8 inches

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I was born in NYC and raised in the CT suburbs. One of my grandfathers was a newspaper publisher and the other a small-town GM dealer. I figure this is a good lineage for a writer. I went to school in Rhode Island, where I worked with some really interesting people, like Angela Carter and John Hawkes. And then I got my MFA from Columbia University in NYC. After school I worked in book publishing in New York, during some lean times. My first novel came out in 1992. Since then, I've been writing mostly. I teach now and then. I got married in 2003, to my girlfriend of many years, Amy. She's working on her MA in decorative arts history. We split our time between Brooklyn and a little island off the coast of CT.
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Supermom

Love this book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2021

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Arrived early and the print quality is perfect

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JackKennan

Twilight...zone. Stirring images. Well done.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 30, 2018

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Bought this as a gift for my son who is an avid photographer who enjoys making HDR images. Crewdson's photo images provide him inspiration as well as visual enjoyment. Having turned through the pages, I too was impressed with this photographer's surreal use of HDR and color rendering, turning seemingly ordinary slice of life scenes into beautiful works of art. Evocatively delightful sometimes haunting, this is a quality collection of artful images that stir ones spirit and imagination.

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Pices007

Extraordinary photos.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 20, 2021

Incredible photos.

Somewhat disappointing.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2016

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Crewdson is famous for his fully staged photography - essentially, cinema level set building, design, dressing and lighting. According to Rick Moody's unhelpful introduction, most of these are dream images. What I find curious is that the unstaged photographs of Eggelston, Moriyama, Arbus, Frank and so on, seem more uncanny and dreamlike. Crewdson's work feels overdetermined and airless.

Otoh, the gallery prints are very large, so perhaps the effect is more compelling there. However, his work is less interesting than Jeff Wall's or Cindy Sherman's.

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Just b-e-a-youtiful photographs and a well laid out and printed book... 10/10

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Andrew Hungerford

Beautiful, mysterious photographs

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I first encountered this book in graduate school in 2002, and it's been a touchstone in my visual research library ever since.

The photographs are meticulously crafted and cinematic. Each image seems to contain manifold stories, and a good deal of the pleasure I find in this book is in constructing my own personal narratives to go along with each one.

I highly recommend this book for lovers of art, light, and the possibilities of visual non-narrative storytelling.

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Great Quality for more than a fair price.

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The book is fantastic! However to my horror it was packed very badly and the book arrived scratched and a damaged. Amazon expects me to pay for all shipping costs to get a refund of the book value only. Since I live in Australia the return shipping would surpass the value of the books sent. I emailed Amazon with this issue 2 weeks ago and NO REPLY!

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Lily Wren

Surreal in the real...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 26, 2010

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I stumbled upon Crewdson just by chance, in fact it was probably looking for photography books on Amazon! The images I saw just drew me in and I just had to get one of his books to see more.

Crewdson may not be viewed as a photographer in the traditional sense and not be to everyone's taste but that's the beauty of photography, it moves around, changes and evolves and, as I have read many times now, does not necessarily mean one lone person travelling the country and globe to capture the shot. I enjoy many different styles of photography and Crewdson's is one of my favourites...so far!

Crewdson is different in that he uses the skills of an elaborate production team. His work is on a large scale, setting up scenes in, more often than not, small town America. Scenes that are dreamlike, unusual and that make the usual seem out of place.

Take the 'Twilight' photography series. This was the first book I bought by Crewdson and it will not be the last. The book includes 40 untitled photographs (plates) which are all seemingly shot at 'Twilight' which he says is an evocative time for the 'movement of transition between before and after' which is what the shots are about. The photographs all include people in everyday situations but with that added extra or a missing component.

I find them very striking in that all the people in them appear dislocated from their current surroundings with almost blank features and stiff, motionless bodies they appear, to me, like the walking dead. Probably not a great comparison but that is what strikes me as I gaze through the photographs.

On the more subtle ones (if subtle is a word to be used here!), a first quick glance and you would almost not notice anything out of place. But something starts to make you feel uneasy, it's un-nerving and you find you have to look for longer, taking in all the surreal dreamlike and, often, haunting visions. You just have to question what is going on here? What came before and is coming after so, in effect, the purpose of showing the transition of before and after has, for me, been achieved.

One of the most striking images for me is Plate 6, that of a woman dressed in her nightie and underwear, kneeling in her kitchen/dining room on a bed of flowers. Dirt covers her legs, and her expression is vacant, her neck is covered with sweat. Amazing streams of light come in through the windows shining into the room. The kitchen itself seems to have been transformed into some kind of greenhouse, it looks hot, plants and flowers are growing in abundance yet there is a woman sat in the middle of frame, in the pile of flowers. I keep looking at this and wonder, was she just gardening and has stopped in mid-thought!? Is she angry and has been beating it out of the flowers? Why the heck are there a load of flowers in the kitchen/dining room?? What is the metaphorical meaning if any?

Plate 19 though is my favourite from the whole series. This is also used as the cover for the book and with good reason. A woman lies face up on a floor, of what seems to be water, in the living room. She is motionless, yet, I find something quite alive about her. The image is quite haunting, as with all the photographs here, and quite disturbing too. But, for me, the beauty and depth shines through. The reflections are wonderful and, once again, the lighting is just so perfect.

That's what I love about this photography, the ability to make me look at it for ages and contemplate what has happened? What is happening? and what is about to happen? A small part of me, maybe the working class, northern 'neigh lass what d'yer want to look at stuff like that fer' wants to fight against it and questions whether it is a little pretentious, but that is a very small, minuscule part of me and one which, for many years in the quest of my creativity, I have had to strongly fight against.

A great set of photographs presented beautifully in this book.

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James L

Great early collection of photos marred by poor print quality and damage

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 3, 2021

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The good: This is a fantastic collection of Crewdson's early work. His concepts and compositions are often intelligent and unearthly. It straddles the line between artificiality and authenticity.

The bad: My book arrived damaged, with a tear on the book jacket. The print quality unfortunately isn't good either. It's fine enough to be passable, in the sense that you can see what's going on in the image, but there's no definition and the printing dot matrix is obvious. There's also a lack of contrast or sharpness. Which is a shame as these photos deserve much better.

Tony Mc

Cheap tat

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 9, 2021

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Gutted, I love the work of Crewdson but coupled with a poor book maker it just kills it for me, book was unsealed, I don’t think it’s used (bought new direct from Amazon) but it feels cheap and print quality is dull. This it the first and last Crewdson book I’ll buy. Shame! It’s horrible overall.

Elleppi

A must-have on your shelf

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 4, 2015

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A must-have on your shelf. Crewdson takes Hopper approach and mixes it with Lynch's style, mood and setting. It's like a bridge between those two. And he creates a unique way of making photography: staging a set like it's a cinematographic and not a photographic one.
Here's my main reasons why I think he's one of the fewest contemporary artists to be seriously taken into consideration

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Kim Western-Williams

Husband happy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 14, 2019

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Going by my husband reaction a very good book :-)

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